Example sentences of "over a [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over a fifth of the adult population owned shares in late 1988 , contrasted with only 6 per cent in early 1984 . |
| 2 | It began to break down by the 1790s when the pressure of a growing population and insufficient work meant that over a fifth of the labour force was virtually permanently unemployed . |
| 3 | The proportion of pupils with statements varies widely across the country , partly because of the LEAs ' differing policies on ‘ statementing ’ , but overall stands at some 1.7 per cent of the total population of statutory school age , with just over a fifth of these in ordinary rather than special schools . |
| 4 | Both governments claim sovereignty over a fifth of the world 's population , yet have survived as neighbours for 44 years without annihilating each other . |
| 5 | Whilst only just over a fifth of all workers work on a part-time basis , well over a half of temporary workers do so . |
| 6 | Family practitioner services take just over a fifth of total NHS spending . |
| 7 | Aldercine 's Active Retirement Club at Luton Regional Sports Centre now number over a hundred on the register — almost half are men ! |
| 8 | Moreover , not very many of their sculptural portraits have survived ( only a few over a hundred for the three centuries after Alexander ) , partly because they were often made of bronze which was readily melted down for re-use . |
| 9 | Well I 'd want over a hundred for that . |
| 10 | I ask whether with the above words he has entrusted to Pamphilus that after his death he should make over a hundred to the sons of the deceased . |
| 11 | Two hundred and then work out thirty five over a hundred of that , |
| 12 | Most docks were around the Midlands ; over a hundred of these were on the Birmingham Canals . |
| 13 | I once defended a small village on Trieste from over a hundred of these things . |
| 14 | Yeah well I du n no I 'm dreading the Easter holidays cos I 've got like erm we 're probably gon na have about two hundred pieces of coursework to mark over Easter then there 's , and they 're sort of you know projecty things and things like that erm and then there 's first week next term there 's like all these second year social , which is well over a hundred of them plus about forty final year projects will come in , plus about I 'm hoping it 'll only be twenty things from Loughborough but it might be as many as , as fifty if the other person gives me all their marking er as they have , they 've given some indication that they will |
| 15 | Well over a hundred of Oxfordshire 's lowest paid and angriest health workers attended a mass meeting to hear that almost all the region 's clerical staff had voted for a one day strike . |
| 16 | I remember John coming to Merthyr and asking the young people to find , see if there was anybody who was over a hundred in the congregation ! |
| 17 | Two over a hundred plus one over a hundred , . |
| 18 | On current projections , in 2001 there will be more than nine million people aged 65 or more , well over four million aged 75 or more and over a million aged 85 or more . |
| 19 | Employment in agriculture , still the main rural industry , fell from over a million in the mid-Sixties to under 100,000 now . |
| 20 | Numbers registered as out of work rose from just over a million in 1979 to over 3 million in 1983 . |
| 21 | Myers has estimated that by the end of the century , at present rates , there will be only two relict blocks : western Brazilian Amazonia and Zaire , with smaller ones in New Guinea and the Guyana Shield of South America , but that these are unlikely to last beyond 2050 because of cultivation as , for example , the population in Rondonia in south Brazilian Amazonia increased from 1100 in 1975 to well over a million by 1986 , with an increase in cultivation from 1250km 2 to 10000 in 1982 and 17000 in 1986 . |
| 22 | Who trains health professionals to give better antenatal and breastfeeding support as well as training and sustaining over a thousand of its own teachers and breastfeeding counsellors ? |
| 23 | No NATO general could have organised the strategy so well , for what general can recognise and know by name over a thousand of his troops — even when masked ? |
| 24 | We have over a thousand of them in the country . ’ |
| 25 | But anyway , this was the first we have such a conference every five years , but over a thousand of us sat around for a week and talked about evolution , and there was one rather curious fact about Vancouver , or the media of Vancouver , during that week . |
| 26 | In an 82 per cent turnout , Mr Ashdown 's Tory challenger , Mr Julian Davidson , polled 22,125 , a drop of just over a thousand on the Conservative share of the vote in 1987 . |
| 27 | Over a hundred are known to have existed , and there may have been over a thousand at various times . |
| 28 | They were housed 64 to a Hut with just over a thousand in total at any one time . |
| 29 | It remains an unpopular choice , with only just over a thousand in existence . |
| 30 | In a partnership consisting of several hundred partners — sometimes over a thousand in the US — the partners can not know each other . |